Religion News on the Web
Selected religion-related news from around the Web
October 13, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Egypt's Islamists play to anti-Israel sentiment
A fiery tirade against Jews by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's leader highlights one of the foremost diplomatic challenges facing the country's new Islamist President Mohammed Morsi as he balances popular sentiment with the need for security relations with Israel.
October 05, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Christians march in Jerusalem in support of Israel
Waving blue and white Israeli flags, thousands of evangelical Christians from around the world filled streets of downtown Jerusalem on Thursday in a show of support for the Jewish state.
October 05, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Egypt's hardline Islamist party unravels
Internal feuds are threatening to unravel the political party of Egypt's ultraconservative Islamist Salafis, as pragmatists try to shake off the control of hardline clerics who reject any compromise in their stark, puritanical version of Islam.
October 04, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Devout Israeli Jews moving to Arab-Jewish cities
Orthodox Jewish Israelis, the driving force of the West Bank settlement movement, have begun to turn their attention inward to Israel itself, moving into Arab areas of mixed cities in an attempt to cement the Jewish presence there.
October 02, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Liberals struggling to prevent Islamist domination in writing of Egypt’s new constitution
Islamists are seeking to enshrine in Egypt’s long-awaited new constitution a number of articles that secularists and liberals fear would bring theocratic rule and severely set back civil liberties, including provisions that could empower clerics to review laws and would stipulate that women’s rights cannot violate Shariah law or “family duties.”
October 01, 2012
- The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Daystar, TBN ready for Messiah in Jerusalem
If the Messiah descends from the Mount of Olives as foretold in the Bible, America's two biggest Christian broadcasters are well-positioned to cover it live thanks to recent acquisitions of adjacent Jerusalem studios on a hill overlooking the Old City.
September 22, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: 2 Islamist militias disband in Libya amid anger over killings
Two Islamist militias in the eastern city of Darnah announced Saturday that they were disbanding, bowing to a wave of antimilitia anger that has swept parts of Libya since a deadly attack on an American diplomatic mission on Sept. 11.
September 22, 2012
- The Times
The Times: Copts prepare to put their faith in new Pope
The riots and violence provoked across the Muslim world by the anti-Islamic film said to have been made by an Egyptian Copt in America have left millions of Egyptian Christians fearful of a violent backlash against their community.
September 17, 2012
- Reuters
Reuters: As Muslims rage, Pakistan scrutinised by churches
With Muslim leaders in many countries calling for a global law barring what they call insults to Islam, the main non-Catholic world Christian grouping on Monday said just such a law in Pakistan is used to persecute other religions.
September 16, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Multiple personalities of the Muslim rage
At the height of the latest Islamic rage, one of the Muslim world's first media-celebrity imams told worshippers they were indeed witnessing a clash of civilizations. But just not the kind you think.
September 16, 2012
- The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: After film, push strengthens for blasphemy clause in Egypt's constitution
Last week's protests in reaction to an anti-Islam YouTube clip have led to Egyptian demands that the United States prosecute the filmmakers and may give a decisive push to an effort to enshrine in the Egyptian constitution the criminalization of blasphemy, or insulting religious figures.
September 16, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: Cultural clash fuels Muslims angry at online video
Stepping from the cloud of tear gas in front of the American Embassy here, Khaled Ali repeated the urgent question that he said justified last week’s violent protests at United States outposts around the Muslim world.